The Royal Academy of Music is one of the most prestigious
conservatoires in the world, training generations of eminent
musicians for all parts of the profession. Its alumni include Henry
Wood, John Barbirolli, Myra Hess, Felicity Lott, Simon Rattle,
Harrison Birtwistle, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Max Richter and
Jacob Collier. Royal Academy graduates populate all the great
orchestras, opera houses and musical theatre venues of the world,
including the London Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, the
Metropolitan Opera and Broadway in New York and the West End. They
are players, singers, composers, conductors, curators, animateurs
and teachers. Approaching its bicentenary, the Royal Academy is
Britain's oldest conservatoire. An international organisation from
its foundation, it has just completed a transformative programme of
new building at the heart of its Marylebone Road site. Bright
ancillary spaces, refurbished studios and two exceptional additions
designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, the Susie Sainsbury Theatre and
the Angela Burgess Recital Hall, have already won major national
and international awards for their breath-taking designs and
outstanding acoustics, ideal for talented young singers,
instrumentalists and composers. Recent decades have seen the Royal
Academy extend its interests to jazz, musical theatre and vital
outreach, educational and celebrated collaborative projects to
foster future generations of musicians and music lovers. This book
reveals how virtuoso architecture and technology have brilliantly
fused the Academy's famous Edwardian building with the modern
institution's creative values and aspirations as it moves towards
its third century.
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